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More News:19th Century News: Health
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A skim milk controversy is being agitated in New York. The question is whether skim milk is injurious to health. It is to be settled by the Supreme Court of New York. January 1882 Paris doctors now agree that a person must fall a distance of at least 600 feet to be unconscious when the collision occurs. January 1883 A mania for walking has again struck the women of the North and East. If women persist in exercising by walking only, generations from now we may see our wives and daughters with a foot and leg whose possibilities one shudders to contemplate. February 1883 Cigarette smoking is a popular luxury in America, and yet there are many who believe and assert that it is injurious to the human system. June 1883 Doctors say that the perspiration coming out on bald heads is poisonous. August 1883
Know Thyself... The average weight of a skeleton is about 14 pounds. Number of bones is 240. The skeleton measures one inch less than the height of the living man. The average weight of the brain of a man is 3 1/2 pounds The average weight of the brain of a woman 2 pounds and 11 ounces. A man breathes about 18 pints of air in a minute. The weight of circulating blood is 28 pounds. One hundred and seventy-five million holes or cells are in the lungs, which would cover a surface 30 times larger than the human body. August 1883 There are 17,000 dentists in the United States, and they every year put over $1,000,000 worth of gold in the teeth. A thousand years from now it will pay to mine old graveyards. August 1883 The latest scientific information regarding mosquitoes is that they cause malaria. Having heretofore caused nothing more serious than profanity this may well be classed as news. The rascals must go. August 1883 It is a marvel to us how the world contrived to get on before the age of patent medicine came in. There are now a hundred infallible cures for "every disease flesh is heir to," and we are puzzled by the fact that people will be such fools as to die when so many specific cures are in reach of them. November 1883
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